Cigar-box-lid holder.



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M. ROTHSCHILD. CIGAR BOX LID HOLDEE. APPLIOATION PILED SEPT.15, 1911.

Patented June 4, 1912.

' MAXITOZYJSCIJJL V wmmboz %WA MAX RO'I'HSCHILD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-BOX-LID HOLDER.

Application filed September 15, 1911. Se'ial No. 649,497.

To all 'wlwm it may concern:

Be it 'known that I, MAX RoTHscHILD, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, county, city, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Box-Lid I-Iolders, as set forth in the following specificatio-n.

This invention relates to means for propping the open hinged cover of boxes such as oigar boxes.

In displaying cigars in a case it is desirable to expose the ornamental inner face of the box cover. To do this in a satisfactory nanner, the cover should be propped up and held in an elevated position firmly relatively to the box proper. The dispenser may then reach into the show-case and, by grasping the uptilted box-cover, remove the box by the cover as a handle and allow the purchaser to remove a cigar from the box proper.

An Object of the invention is to provide for this manner of dispensing cigars by a device which will permit the ready adjustment and strutting of the box cover into and in any inclination desired.

It is a further Object of the invention to combine in a single article means for so propping a box cover throughout a wide range of small or large adjustments with means for holding a label or price tag across the inner face of the opened cover.

A still further Object of the invention is to improve the details of construction in an article of the class, described.

The above and further objects of the invention will be clear from the following specification and claims which should be read in connection with the illustrative embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, in which like characters designate corresponding parts and in which,-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device in working position, the box being shown in dot and dash lines; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device; Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same; Fig. 4 is a rear elevation; Fig. 5 is a plan view; Fig. 6 is a face view of the blank from which the body of the device is formed; and Fig. 7 is a detail view of the spurred arm.

The entire device may be termed a strut for box covers and may be formed of any Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

1 i 2 suitable sheet metal such as nickel plated Sheet steel.

A blank 1 is punched to have the configuration shown in Fig. 6. The side lips 2 and 3 are overturned to form oifset flanges similarly numbered in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, so that the rectangular portion 4, edged by these flanges 2 and 3 forms a label or price tag holder. r V

The end extension 5 is bent back first with a portion 5' at right angles to the label holder 4 and then with the portion 5 substantially parallel but slightly approaching the label holder 4, the extending fingers 6 and 7 being slightly outturned so as to take over the edge of the box cover 8. These gripping parts may be termed a clip for engaging the box cover. The downwardly extending lip 9 is bent in at right angles to form the lug 10* adapted to take under the heel 21 of the box cover 8.

The hinge-lug 11 is bent out at right angles to the plane of the label holder, to which the spurred arm 12 may be pivoted as by the rivet 13. This arm 12 is a single fold of sheet metal having the two overlying lugs 14 with the perforations 15 for the passage of the rivet 13. The slot 16 separates the spring lips 17 from the lugs 14 and in the assembled device they frictionally grip the hinge-lug 11. The arm 12 terminates in a sharp inturned spur 18 adapted to dig into the rear or hinging wall 19 of the box 20.

Operation: To apply the device to a box cover the label holder 4 is placed against the inside face of the box cover and is pressed inwardly so that the fingers 6 and 7 slide over the rear of the box cover the part 5" springing out slightly so as to insure a good grip on the box cover and to adapt the device to various thicknesses of box covers. The lug 10 takes under the heel 21 of the box cover 8 to prevent the device sliding upwardly along the edge of the box cover.

The box cover may be adjusted into practically any position back of the vertical. The adjustment is not limited to one or two or three positions. The person manipulating the device needs merely tolift the box cover up to the desired angle and at the same time to press in the arm 12 so that the by the arm 12 with its spur 18 digging'into the wall of the box.

What is clamed and What is desired to be eeeured by United States Letters Patent 1. In combinaton, a label-holder; a clipflange for olamping said label holder to a hinged box-cover; a hinge-lug bent out at right angles from the real: of said labelholder; a nding spurred arm .pvoted to said hngei ug; and provsons for retardng the pvotal movement of said Spurred* arm so thatt may be set in any angular .position to engage the rear Wall of ,the box to hold. the ld at the desred angle.

2. In combnaton, a label-holder; a clipfiange for 'clampng said label-holder to a hinged box-cover; a hinge-lug bent out at any angular position to engage the rear wall of the box to hold the ld at the desred angle.

In Wtness whereof, I have signed my :name to this specficaton, in the presence of two subscribing Wtnesses.

MAX ROTHSCHLD. VVtnesSes:

SIDNEY NEWBORG, L. ALTMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, =by addressing the Gommssoner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

